Eustis resident Christopher Goodall sentenced to life for arson and murder

TAVARES — A 43-year-old Eustis man will spend the rest of his life in prison for intentionally burning a mobile home and killing a 86-year-old man.

Christopher Goodall had been convicted of first-degree murder and arson for the April 2010 blaze that killed Salvatore Giumarra in his doublewide home in the rural Pine Lakes community. According to trial evidence, Goodall had used gasoline to start the fire at the base of the home out of anger against Giumarra, whose live-in caretaker, Renee Gilmore, was Goodall's on-again, off-again girlfriend.

Giumarra's body was found in a closet the morning after fire consumed the home. He had died of carbon-monoxide poisoning, according to an autopsy. Goodall's defense attorney tried to argue that there was no evidence or testimony from witnesses who saw him actually set the fire.

However, Goodall had gasoline on his clothing the morning after and he had left several harassing phone messages on Giumarra's voice mail in the hours before the fire, according to evidence.